Martin Bridson

Martin R Bridson
Born	1964 Douglas, Isle of Man
Fields	Geometric Group Theory
Institutions	University of Oxford
Alma mater	Ph.D., 1991 Cornell University
Doctoral advisor	Karen Vogtmann
Doctoral students	Owen Cotton-Barratt, Will Dison, Dawid Kielak, Adam Piggott, Tim Riley, Claas Roever, Michael Tweedale, Ric Wade, Henry Wilton, Daniel Wise
Notable awards	PCMI Clay Scholar RS Wolfson Research Merit Award Whitehead Prize (1999) EPSRC Senior Fellowship Abel Lecturer Marker Lecturer Forder Lecturer

Martin Robert Bridson is a Manx mathematician. He is the Whitehead Professor of Pure Mathematics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College. Specializing in geometry, topology and group theory, Bridson is best known for his work in Geometric Group Theory. He was an Invited Lecturer at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006. In 2014, he became a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.^[1]

Bridson was educated at St Ninian's High School, Douglas, Hertford College, Oxford, and Cornell University,^[2] receiving an MA from Oxford (1986), and an MS (1988) and PhD (1991) from Cornell.^[3][4] He has previously taught at Princeton University, the University of Geneva and Imperial College London^[5]

Bridson is a native of the Isle of Man.^[6]

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